Sometimes we believe only being smart can get us to the road to success. However, this belief is not the true reality. There are so many instances where we can find smart people fail. Here are the reasons behind why even smart people also fails.
2. 1. Laziness
2. Overconfidence
3. Over Thinking in Search of Perfection
4. They Always Need to be ‘Right’
5. Self Sabotage
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3. 1. Laziness
No one has climbed the mountain just by looking at it; no one has
mastered a skill just by wishing it. The road to fiasco is mostly
achieved by choosing the path of laziness. Laziness can be due to
two reasons: because of fear and the other simply being your
high motivation to do nothing. Laziness handicaps one’s
ambitions. There’s a hard price of failure and rue that one pays
for being lethargic.
4. 2. Overconfidence
People with that overconfident mindset avoid challenge, give up
early, view effort as interim, surround themselves with the “yes”
men and women and rely so much on their smartness that they
fail to work hard. These all qualities are incompatible with
success.
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking
they can’t lose.”
– Bill Gates